Ruby Chishti: The World is a Loose Stitch
Perhaps one of the most uniting aspects of the human experience is the quality of resilience in the face of mourning. There exists no shortage of suffering in our existence, both in the individual lifetimes of people, and across mankind鈥檚 history; in spite of this, the human spirit possesses an invariable ability to continue on.
Joy and mourning; love and loss; birth and death鈥揳ll these things cannot exist without the other. And so they go on, in an unending cycle of ups and downs, and we experience one, and then another, one, and then another. Ruby Chishti recognizes this. Her work is at once a celebration of what is cherished and a reverence for that which has been lost. As Chishti has faced her own fair share of hardships throughout her lifetime, her ability to channel the oppressive weight of memory into artwork that exudes such sincerity and love is something to be admired.
In her newest body of work, The World is a Loose Stitch, Chishti focuses on a motif that has permeated her practice over the years: her cloth women. Made from assemblages of stuffing and recycled pantyhose, these women are lovingly created, allowed to exist in natural shapes and poses, relaxed and resting鈥搕he hand of their maker driven by an unmistakable veneration of womanhood and the female form.
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Perhaps one of the most uniting aspects of the human experience is the quality of resilience in the face of mourning. There exists no shortage of suffering in our existence, both in the individual lifetimes of people, and across mankind鈥檚 history; in spite of this, the human spirit possesses an invariable ability to continue on.
Joy and mourning; love and loss; birth and death鈥揳ll these things cannot exist without the other. And so they go on, in an unending cycle of ups and downs, and we experience one, and then another, one, and then another. Ruby Chishti recognizes this. Her work is at once a celebration of what is cherished and a reverence for that which has been lost. As Chishti has faced her own fair share of hardships throughout her lifetime, her ability to channel the oppressive weight of memory into artwork that exudes such sincerity and love is something to be admired.
In her newest body of work, The World is a Loose Stitch, Chishti focuses on a motif that has permeated her practice over the years: her cloth women. Made from assemblages of stuffing and recycled pantyhose, these women are lovingly created, allowed to exist in natural shapes and poses, relaxed and resting鈥搕he hand of their maker driven by an unmistakable veneration of womanhood and the female form.
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